Cherish

Here is a story..



There was once a boy and a girl. They were very close friends and they grew up together. They would meet up everyday to chat, to play and to share their troubles with one another.

Then one day, the girl began to avoid and ignore the boy because she had heard some rumors about him. The boy didn't know what was happening and tried to talk to her. But she continued to avoid and ignore him and she didn't meet up with him anymore. The boy felt depressed and sad that the girl hated him. He then started to wonder about what he did to her that made her so mad at him. He eventually learned that there were rumors about him doing something bad to one of the girl's other friend. The boy then tried to explain to the girl that he didn't do anything, but he was always ignored by the girl. Every phone call was rejected and whenever he approached her, she ignored him like he wasn't there at all. The boy felt angry because she refused to listen to him. He also felt betrayed because the girl trusted her other friend, who had created the rumor, more than him, who was her best friend since young.

After a few weeks, the girl found out that the rumors weren't true and she wanted to apologise to him. This time however, it was the boy's turn to ignore her. She even went to his house to try to talk to him but the boy refused to talk to her. The boy knew that she wanted to apologise to him but he was still mad at her and wanted to ignore her like what she did to him. Realising that the boy wouldn't talk to her, the girl went home.

The next day, the boy received a phone call, it was from the girl's mother, telling him that his best friend was killed from a car accident while walking home the day before. The boy was dumbstruck and heartbroken. Dumbstruck because it was a freak accident, but heartbroken because he realised that if he had let her talk to him, she wouldn't have died that day and she also wouldn't have died knowing that the boy was still mad and has not forgiven her.

This incident had haunted the boy for years and whenever he looked back, he would blame himself and thought that he was better off dead because he had caused the death of his closest friend. He also felt useless because of all the things he did, he couldn't even do the simplest thing, which was to maintain a great long friendship with the closest friend he ever had.

That is why you should cherish your friends well because anything can happen everyday and you'll never know when is the last time you will be talking to him/her. Whatever problems that arises between you and your friends, you shouldn't blame and stay mad at each other. All the more, should not be ignoring each other. Instead, you all should just come together and solve the problem. When you found out that you are in the wrong, apologise immediately. When you know that someone wants to apologise to you, let him/her do it and forgive him/her so that you all will know that there are no more grudges held against each other.